I find him uniformly to claim, sometimes in tone, sometimes in distinct words, that we will sit at his feet as little children and learn of him.

I find him ready to answer off-hand, all difficult questions, critical and lawyer-like, as well as moral.

True, it is no tenet of mine that intellectual and literary attainment is essential in an individual person to high spiritual eminence.

True, in another book I have elaborately maintained the contrary.

Yet in that book I have described men's spiritual progress as often arrested at a certain stage by a want of intellectual development; which surely would indicate that I believed even intellectual blunders and an infinitely perfect exhaustive morality to be incompatible.